Jennifer Lynn Barnes Anthology

1026 Pages·2012·4.43 MB·English

by  Lynn Barnes Jennifer

ALSO BY JENNIFER LYNN BARNES
The Raised by Wolves series:
Raised by Wolves
Trial by Fire
Taken by Storm
Every Other Day
Nobody
Dear Readers,
The books you’re reading in this collection were all written during
the period of my life when I was a graduate student by day and a
writer by night. I started writing Raised by Wolves near the
beginning of my graduate school career, and the third book in the
trilogy, Taken by Storm, was released the day after I received my
Ph.D.
There are many things that unite all of the stories in this bundle—
my love of strong female protagonists and an emphasis on female
friendships; the importance of family and the idea that the people
we love are our family, whether we share blood or not; themes
related to sacrifice and the idea that sometimes there are no good
choices; being powerfully drawn to someone because you feel, on
some bone-deep level, like the two of you are the same—but looking
back, one of the biggest threads that I can see tying all of these
books together is the role that my scientific background—and my
double life as a cognitive scientist—played in the writing of these
books.
The Raised by Wolves series, about a human girl who was raised by
werewolves, was strongly inspired by the time I spent doing
research with pack animals in the wild. In my case, the pack
animals in question were monkeys, not wolves, but spending
summers as one of the only humans on an island full of wild
monkeys has a way of making you pay attention to things like
dominance, body language, and hierarchy (see also: the time I didn’t
realize the monkey standing next to me was the alpha of the whole
island and I maybe, kind of, tried to get him to move along, and he
proved to me that in the great battle of Jen vs. the Alpha Monkey,
the alpha monkey will always come out on top).
Every Other Day was similarly inspired by science: in the world that
my protagonist, Kali, lives in, the creatures of myth not only exist—
they were discovered by Charles Darwin on his voyage on the
Beagle! Kali’s character also owes her nature to my double life: she’s
a superpowered demon hunter whose powers only work every other
day, and on the off days, she’s completely human. I have no
superpowers (that I know of), but I was very much living an every
other day kind of life while writing the book: every other day I was
a writer, and every day in between, I was researching human
psychology instead.
The theme of being pulled between two worlds is widespread in
fiction—particularly coming of age stories, where characters are
caught between adolescence and adulthood. For Kali and Bryn, the
battle between their dual natures is fierce. Bryn was raised like a
werewolf, but she’s biologically human. It’s Nature vs. Nurture in its
purest form: if you were raised like a werewolf, how human could
you be? For Kali, the answer to the question “What am I?” literally
changes every twenty-four hours. Ultimately, both girls have to
figure out not only what they are and how they fit into their
respective worlds, but who they are and who they want to be.
Also included in this collection is a bonus short story, featuring Lake
from the Raised by Wolves series. Like my other protagonists, she’s
caught between worlds, both by virtue of being a werewolf and by
virtue of being female, a rarity in the werewolf world. She’s
powerful, but objectified—and in “Sweet Sixteen” you get a hint of
the fact that she has her own reasons for feeling like she doesn’t
quite belong in this world.
I hope you enjoy these books—and the girls at their heart—as much
as I enjoyed writing them. At the end of this bundle, you’ll find a
teaser for my newest book, Nobody, a romance about two
supernaturally unnoticeable teenagers: a boy who has been raised as
an assassin and the girl he is sent to kill. It’s a book about feeling
invisible—and finding the one person who actually sees you.
Happy reading!
Jennifer Lynn Barnes
CONTENTS
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Note from the Author
T R W
HE AISED BY OLVES SERIES:
Raised by Wolves
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-one
Chapter Twenty-two
Chapter Twenty-three
Chapter Twenty-four
Chapter Twenty-five
Chapter Twenty-six
Chapter Twenty-seven
Chapter Twenty-eight
Chapter Twenty-nine
Acknowledgments
B “Sweet Sixteen”: a R W short story
ONUS: AISED BY OLVES
Title Page
Copyright
First Page
Trial by Fire
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-one
Chapter Twenty-two
Chapter Twenty-three
Chapter Twenty-four
Chapter Twenty-five
Chapter Twenty-six
Chapter Twenty-seven
Chapter Twenty-eight
Chapter Twenty-nine
Chapter Thirty
Acknowledgments
Taken by Storm
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-one
Chapter Twenty-two
Chapter Twenty-three
Chapter Twenty-four
Chapter Twenty-five
Chapter Twenty-six
Chapter Twenty-seven
Chapter Twenty-eight
Chapter Twenty-nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-one
Chapter Thirty-two
Chapter Thirty-three
Chapter Thirty-four
Chapter Thirty-five
Chapter Thirty-six
Chapter Thirty-seven
Chapter Thirty-eight
Chapter Thirty-nine
Epilogue
Every Other Day
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28